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UW in the News

January 17, 2012

State, national and international media frequently feature
the University of Wyoming and members of its community in stories. Here is a
summary of some of the recent articles where UW is making the news.

The Washington
Examiner published UW's news release about the university's new program to
offer reduced tuition to students from Tunisia. Tunisia
Live also carried the UW release as well as other newspapers in the region,
printed in French and Arabic, and Radio Jawhara.

The international news website News
Blaze featured an article on research published in the journal "Cell" the
UW Department of Zoology & Physiology Associate Professor Jeff Woodbury. It
describes a new technique for color-coding nerves involved in touch, giving
neuroscientists a much-needed tool for studying the different circuits of skin
sensation. Johns Hopkins Medicine also reported Woodbury's work with colleagues
in a Newswire
article.

The UW Art Museum and Pinedale Arts Council later this
spring will host a public event that is among activities planned to showcase
the community's historical downtown business district, according to a story in The
Sublette Examiner.

In an article about the decline of antelope in North Dakota
because of severe winter conditions and migration patterns, The
Bismarck Tribune cites UW research that is in the early stages of a
three-year study to track pronghorn behavior on the winter range in the high
desert near Medicine Bow.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and UW representatives recently were
in Texas meeting with officials of some of the nation's largest energy
companies to try to drum up support for UW's School of Energy Resources,
according to an Associated Press story picked up by The
Billings Gazette.

KGAB
Radio reports UW researchers will be able to better understand details
about underground oil and gas deposits through a new high-resolution 3-D x-ray
microscope.

UW students and community members participated in National
Service Day as part of Martin Luther King Jr./Days of Dialogue, according to KOWB Radio.

Specialty crops, such as grapes and mint offer an additional
opportunity for current Wyoming growers, for small farmers and homeowners to
expand into these cash crops and new markets, says Valtcho Jeliazkov from the Sheridan Research
and Extension Center in a story in The
Prairie Star.

In an Associated Press story picked up by The
Billings Gazette, Gov. Matt Mead says the state should have one university --
the University of Wyoming -- and a strong community college system with the two
working in partnership.

KGWN
Television carried UW's release about the new Visual Arts building being
dedicated this week.